Chapter 34: Human Extinction
If you want to test your ability to carry the impact, jumping from a height is a shortcut, gradually lifting, and the danger is controllable. Of course, the simplest and rude way is to jump off the building, but it is a little too shocking, and Man Jianghong has to find a cliff where there is no one.
The institute covers a large area, with more than 2,000 acres. At dusk one day, he deliberately took a walk, specially chose a secluded place to walk, and unconsciously came to the back mountain.
In the autumn wind, the pines and camphor trees are still green, but the neem and zelkova trees begin to lose their leaves, and the weeds turn yellow. The neat stone path spirals upward, but an unnoticed gravel path diverges and sloes downward, hidden in the grass. Man Jianghong descended the path and gradually came to the side of the mountain stream, where shrubs and vines were overgrown, and there was no way out ahead.
He cautiously leaned down his right foot, first stepping on a solid spot, then brushing aside the vine leaves in front of him, leaning forward to look down. The mountain stream was faint and dim, and he couldn't see it clearly, so he fixed his mind, grabbed the rattan with both hands, and moved his left foot down. But his left foot did not touch the ground, but the clod of earth in his right foot collapsed, and he fell down with a groan, and the slender rattan in his hand was broken.
There is no water in the mountain stream, the dead leaves are thick, and an old man sitting cross-legged on the big stone five or six meters below raises his arm, and the momentum of the straight fall of Man Jianghong suddenly turns into a horizontal rotation, and after a few turns like a wind wheel in the air, he falls into the pile of fallen leaves and rolls three or four times in a row, and then he barely gets up.
Falling off a cliff and meeting a strange person, this is an old routine of classic martial arts, and it seems to make some sense. Ordinary people who have nothing to do squatting at the bottom of the cliff waiting for the fruits to fall from the sky? Not to mention gloomy and gloomy, just to prevent insects, snakes, and beasts is enough for him to drink a pot.
Man Jianghong's body was not hindered, but his head was turned a little dizzy. After standing up straight, I looked closely, and saw that the net-like kudzu vine above had broken open, and the sunlight was shining on a person.
This is a strange monk of the research institute who is alone, full of wrinkles and gray eyebrows, I don't know how old I am, but my eyes are as clear as a child. There are no ring scars on Guangguang's scalp, I don't know if it's a real monk or a fake monk, anyway, everyone is just screaming.
However, the scar ring was only possessed by Han monks after the Song Dynasty, and Buddhism itself was not advocated, and it was abolished in modern times. The monk's ring scar is the same as the Taoist priest's bull's nose and bun, which is only available to ascetic practitioners, but it is not necessarily a sign of authenticity.
Man Jianghong patted the grass stems and leaves on his body, and shouted "Master Gesang" but there was no response.
The great monk closed his eyes and meditated on things and forgot about them, and his face was happy for a while, and sad for a while. Everywhere the mountain breeze passed, the light and shadow floated, making his face hideous and solemn for a while.
It seemed that the great monk's quiet correction was at a critical juncture, and Man Jianghong didn't dare to make a sound to disturb him anymore, so he sat down cross-legged three meters away from him. The blades of grass on the ground are very clean, and the cushions are very comfortable underneath.
Man Jianghong has been in the research institute for almost a month, and he is quite popular. Needless to say, Old Master Zhang is the top boss, and the numerology master Kang Jie is also quite interested in him, and he also deliberately found the consciousness laboratory to ask for warmth. This Gesang has only met twice on the road, smiling and nodding in greeting, very kind. However, the younger colleagues were very arrogant, especially after defeating Bing Hu, several martial artists saw him with a bad look and were eager to try. Naturally, he didn't want to touch his head, so he wouldn't be able to avoid it.
Could it be that the great monk is practicing a great skill? Then let's protect him myself.
After a while, Gesang opened his eyes, his body withered and withered, and muttered to himself: "It's over!"
Man Jianghong was startled and called "master" twice in a row.
Gesang slowly raised his head, stretched out his fingers and pointed at him, "You will die." β
Before Man Jianghong came back to his senses, he lowered his head and sighed again, rubbed his eyebrows and said, "I will die too." β
What kind of words is this? To tell the truth, is there anyone who is immortal! But the big truth can't be spread out like this, who doesn't panic when he listens to it, there is something wrong with the monk's brain.
He was still slandering here, and the great monk wiped his face, although his eyes were like torches, he couldn't hide the tiredness on his face, and said: "Soon, we will all die, and the human race will also be extinct! I don't know what kind of life will linger in this green mountains and green waters in the future." β
Hearing this sentence, Man Jianghong's heart jumped violently, almost stopped, and ten thousand grass and mud horses roared by.
Please, Great Monk. I fell from above and my head was still dizzy, my little heart was pounding, and as soon as you opened your mouth, it was such a supreme and terrifying proposition as "human extinction", don't scare me, okay? You casually leaked the biggest secret in the universe, did the Buddha know?
Master Gesang closed his eyes and pondered for a while, and when he opened his eyes again, he had regained his calm expression, beckoned to Jiang Hong, and shouted: "Stinky boy, are you okay? β
Man Jianghong greeted with a smile: "Master Gesang, hello." β
"Don't call the master, call the great monk. The master is the master of every industry, and the sprinkler family has only stepped into the threshold and is not worthy of this title. β
Cut, isn't this taking off your pants and farting, doing this extra thing? In Sanskrit, "monk" means "teacher", and the great monk is not a master. However, the "master" has been overused, your master, my master, even the one who picks up garbage is also a master of resource recycling, no wonder the great monk is not happy.
"Great monk, just look at the expression on your face, as if you are desperately trying to remember what scene, or thinking hard about what happened. β
A trace of surprise flashed on Gesang's face, and he said, "Oh, you can guess what he thinks from a person's expression, you are good, what's your name?"
"Jiang Hong, from the Consciousness and Psychoanalysis Research Group of the Hospital. β
Cut, what is this, I can roughly guess your dream by looking at the EEG! Defeating Bing Hu has caused a sensation in the courtyard, and the great monk is alone, I'm afraid I don't know yet.
"Yes, yes, you're much better than the cowhiders in the courtyard. To be honest, the timing of your fall was very coincidental, and the credit is not small. Just now, at the critical moment of meditation, you 'pounced' and fell, and you were so frightened that your soul went out of your body, broke through the obstacles, and saw things that you couldn't see before. β
"What do you see?"
Generally, when entering meditation and meditating, you should not feel the movement of the outside world, and you should not be disturbed, how the great monk has not been affected, and you can help yourself unload the momentum with a flick of your hand, and the reaction is very fast and the strength is amazing.
Gesang didn't answer, his eyes were far away, staring closely behind Man Jianghong, as if he was looking at a picture in the void, and his face gradually turned pale.
Man Jianghong hurriedly turned around, but found that there was nothing. He was still a little uneasy, and tentatively reached back to touch it, but still didn't feel anything.
Gesang quickly regained his composure, and when he saw him like this, he couldn't help but smile and ask, "Did you touch anything?"
Man Jianghong shook his head.
"Then you close your eyes, focus all your feelings on your hands, reach out and touch them. β
After a while, Man Jianghong said: "I can feel the flow of air, and even feel the release of a faint charge at the cilia on the surface of the body, which is crispy and numb." There are other feelings, but can't say what. β
"Hahaha, I thought that there was no place for anything, but in fact, as long as I experienced it with my heart, I found that it was not the case. β
Gesang laughed and said, "Zen Buddhism has a threefold realm. The first is to see that the mountains are mountains and the water is water before meditation; the second is to see that the mountains are not mountains and the water is not water; and the third is that after the epiphany, the mountains are still mountains and the water is still water. β
Man Jianghong opened his eyes, pondered for a while, and said, "I think there should be a fourth realm, there are no mountains and no water. β
"Oh, how?"
"Take this stone as an example," Man Jianghong patted his buttocks and said:
"The big rock we saw, in fact, the silica molecule only occupies 1% of the space, which means that this 1% of the space has all the mass, and the remaining 99% of the space is actually nothing. The nucleus, which occupies only 0.001% of the entire atomic space, occupies 99.999% of the mass from the molecule to the atom, which means that the vast majority of space has nothing but negligible electrons. If we continue to divide it like this, we will find that there is nothing in the material world! There is nothing in the first place, so where is the dust?"
The great monk was stunned, and couldn't help but say:
"Color is emptiness, and emptiness is color. Your kid has deep roots in wisdom, and you can break through the red dust at a young age, why don't you practice with the Sprinkle family?"
"No, no, no......"
Man Jianghong waved his hand in a panic and said: "I am an ordinary man, even if I know that everything is empty, my body still has to eat and dress, and I can't drink the northwest wind." β
"The people of the world are tired because of a stinky skin, and they can't swallow the northwest wind unless they eat or wear it, so how can they swallow the northwest wind? It's a pity that the Sprinkle family is stupid, and they can't do it after 50 years of practice. You look pretty smart, why don't you give it a try......"
Gesang's eyes flickered, like a strange man shaking a marshmallow to seduce little Lori.
"Great monk, what did you see when you said you broke through the barrier just now?"
Man Jianghong was afraid that the great monk would forcibly accept apprentices on a whim, and there would be no White Lady to save him when the time came, so he hurriedly changed the topic.
Gesang was silent for a moment and said:
"The Sprinklers saw it, but they couldn't understand it, they couldn't confirm it, and they couldn't express it. β
"Maybe I can analyze the analysis with you. β
"Then the Sprinkle family asked you, what was your true face before your parents gave birth to you?"
Man Jianghong was stunned, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and many vague images flew by, but he couldn't grasp what it was, and he couldn't describe it in words.
Seeing his embarrassment, Gesang smiled and said:
"After every meditation, the Sprinkler family seems to have a glimpse of the heavens, but when you think about it carefully, you can't grasp anything, just like you are now. The Sprinkler family asks you, do you believe that the future is certain?"
Man Jianghong came back to his senses and said: "Classical physics thinks it is, but quantum mechanics thinks it is not. β
"But they all explain the world very well. β
"I guess they're just relatively right, because humanity hasn't reached a deeper level yet. β
"Hahaha, you are not afraid to point fingers at the pinnacle of human civilization. Science pays attention to the knowledge of things, and summarizes the laws from the operation of things; Taoism pays attention to an "enlightenment", and the Tao is very Taoist, and if you don't realize it, you are not a fart. The fortune-telling old man Kang Jie used the I Ching gossip to combine science, which is a bit new, but it is impossible to succeed. The future is uncertain, so how can it be deduced and calculated? Buddhists pay attention to a "fate," and everything arises and dies because of fate. For example, the Sprinkle family is bored today, and the courtyard is too noisy, so you hide here to be quiet and quiet, but you fall from above, this is fate. If it is calculated in advance that it will meet you, then the Sprinkle family will not come at all, do you say that this fate is accurate or not?"
"Great monk, I don't think it can be measured accurately or not. As the saying goes, the secret of heaven cannot be leaked, and if it is leaked, it will not work. In fact, there is a similar statement in quantum theory, such as the classic experiment of 'SchrΓΆdinger's cat'. The cat in the box is in a state of neither dead nor alive, and only when the lid is opened can the life and death of the cat be determined and cannot be changed. β
"Hahaha, this hypothetical experiment is very ingenious. There are countless worlds of disillusionment in an instant, and opening the lid is only a moment for us, just by chance, but it can be very long for the microcosm. Small changes accumulate into vicissitudes, and finally determine and become inevitable.
For example, four hundred years ago, there were three dynasties in the land of China, Dashun, Ming, and Qing, and the final result was that Li Zicheng destroyed the Ming Dynasty but defeated Beijing, and the Manchus crossed the Shanhai Pass to enter the Central Plains and established the Qing Dynasty with a three-hundred-year foundation. All this seems to be accidental, because of the plague in Beijing, it was the plague that wiped out the Dashun rebel army and the Ming army. The Qing army was very little affected, thanks to the Manchu-Han isolation policy at the time. To investigate the cause of the plague, we must trace it back to the climate, to the land annexation, grassland encroachment, ecological destruction and so on. Continuing to trace back, those small traces that led to change are completely submerged in the torrent of time, and we only see the result.
History is like a flowing river, with a general trend, but at every stage and in each part, the waves and whirlpools rise and fall one after another, and the flow speed is not the same, and the innumerable contingencies form the inevitability, and in the innumerable inevitability, there is the accident. The mass extinction sensed by the Sprinkler family is accidental for human beings, but from a higher level and a larger scale, it may be inevitable. β
Man Jianghong gasped.
Quantum mechanics believes that it is not accumulation but probability that determines the outcome. In the hypothetical experiment of "SchrΓΆdinger's Cat", the cat is in a state of neither life nor death, and the moment the lid is lifted, the cat's wave function collapses, and countless possibilities solidify into the final choice. Although the great monk's thinking is still on the macro aspect, and his understanding of the micro is very different, it does not hinder his judgment of historical evolution.
History has its own laws and trajectories of development, and a single individual does not have much influence on history. The emperor died, Zhang San and Li Si, and the social torrent was still rolling forward. However, the life and death of some earth-shattering figures, such as Qin Shi Huang who died in the middle of the world, Xiang Yu in the Battle of Julu, Liu Bang in the Hongmen Banquet, and Li Shimin in the Xuanwumen Mutiny, determined where Chinese history would turn at the next moment.
However, the impact of big people on history is not worth mentioning compared to big events. Advanced events such as the impact of an asteroid on Earth 60 million years ago destroyed the dinosaurs and led to the rise of mammals (including humans) later. Minor events such as the exodus of mankind from Africa, and secondary events such as the Black Death that swept through Europe in the Middle Ages, the Crusades, several world wars, and so on.
Since the great monk mentioned the top proposition of "human extinction", if it is true, then it means that an unprecedented top event will happen.